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A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World: Performed by James Cook. With an Account of His Life, During the Previous and Intervening Periods
by Kippis, A.and S.A.
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- 1893
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SGD 200.40
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Leicaster: Bickers and Sons, 1893. Hardcover. Near Fine. Brown tree calf, rebacked with orig. spine laid down, gilt stamp of London Freemen's Orphan School on upper front cover; x, 404pp. With 12 plates incl. fronti reproduced from facsimile from Cook's Voyages. Orphan school prize label on the front pastedown, otherwise a near fine. Kippis book about the three… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Traveller's Eye
by Carrington, Dorothy
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- 1949
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London: Readers Union with The Pilot Press, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Quarter navy cloth, blue cloth boards. xii, 388 pp., xxvii pp. B&W plates. Fading to extremities, spine tilted. Light age toning to interior. Dust jacket is toned, sunned to spine, chipped to spine ends. Item Price
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An Arctic Boat Journey, In the Autumn of 1854
by Hayes, Isaac I.
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- 1st Edition
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- 1860
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SGD 250.50
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Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo. New navy cloth, new spine label, orig. cloth with gilt vignette laid down to front board. New endpapers. xvii, 375 pp., 2 pp. adverts. Two folding maps at front. Orig. cloth is faded, soiled, and worn. Interior age toned. Else near fine. Isaac I. Hayes… Read more about this item Item Price
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Quatre Voyageurs Espagnols a Alexandrie d'Egypte -- Benjamin de Tudela 1166-71--lbn Goubair 1183-85--Pero Tafur 1435-39--Ali bey el Abbassi (Domingo Badia) 1803-7
by de Herreros, Don Enrique Garcia
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SGD 501.00
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[Alexandrie]: Impr. par l'E?cole professionnelle des fre`res, pour la Socie?te? arche?ologique]. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo (super). [1923]. Limited first edition, 500 printed, 10 with printed dedication, 490 copies numbered 11 to 500, #137. Societe Archeologique A'Alexandrie. Rebound, new navy leather, red leather spine label raised spine bands, gilt stamped compartments, new marbled paper boards. New endpapers. Orig.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Quiet Adventurers in Canada
by Turk, Marion
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- 1979
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- Soft cover
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SGD 50.10
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Maryland: Heritage Books, 1979. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Facsimile Reprint. Heritage Classic. Paperback in red covers, xxxiv, 547pp plus glossary & index. Illustrated. The story of the Channel Islanders who established fisheries in the New World and their coastal settlements. Item Price
SGD 50.10
The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354, Volume II
by Gibb, H.A.R.
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- 1st Edition
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- 1962
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SGD 85.17
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New York: Cambridge University Press, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Volume II only of 5. Orig. blue cloth, gilt ship device. xii, 271-537 pp. [3] folding maps. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Small stains to copyright page. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine, chipped to extremities, soiled to… Read more about this item Item Price
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La Salle: The Life and Times of an Explorer
by Terrell, John Upton
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1968
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New York: Weybright and Talley, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Green cloth spine over creme boards, 282pp. Fine. Biography of 22 year old French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle who, in 1668 arrived in New France to explore the wilderness of what is now the American Midwest and to make his fortune. Unfortunately, his ambition would… Read more about this item Item Price
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Barrow's Boys
by Fleming, Fergus
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- Fine
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- 1st American Edition
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- 1998
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SGD 30.06
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New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Black paper boards. xiv, 489 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Sticker ghost to head of front cover of dust jacket, else fine. A stirring story of daring, fortitude, and outright lunacy. Item Price
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The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer
by Waines, David
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- 2012
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London: I.B. Taurus, 2012. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xiii, 226 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos. Fine. Ibn Battuta was, without a doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers. Born in fourteenth century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta has left us an account in his won words of his remarkable journeys throughout… Read more about this item Item Price
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History of Cavelier de la Salle, 1643-1687: Explorations in the Valleys of the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi, Taken from his letters, reports to King Louis XIV, also the reports of several of his associates, official acts and contemporaneous documents
by Chesnel, Paul
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- 1st Edition
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- 1932
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. green cloth. Map endpapers. vii, 232 pp. B&W frontis. portrait, [1] B&W folding map. Spine sunned, black staining to upper front joint, chafing to extremities. Spine slightly tilted. Item Price
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The Living Arctic
by Muller, Fritz
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1977
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- Hardcover
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Toronto: Methuen, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Full grey cloth. 233 pp. Copiously illustrated mostly in colour. Dust jacket lightly sunned to extremities, some light bumping to edges and small chip to upper front corner. Item Price
SGD 50.10
People of the First Man: Life Among the Plains Indians in Their Final Days of Glory: The Firsthand Account of Prince Maximillian's Expedition up the Missouri River, 1833-34
by Thomas, Davis and Karin Ronnefeldt (editors)
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- 1st Edition
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- 1982
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SGD 60.12
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New York: Promontory Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Bodmer, Karl. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Orig. russet cloth. Map endpapers. 256 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Dust jacket is lightly bumped and sunned to extremities. Item Price
SGD 60.12
The Creature in the Map: A Journey to El Dorado
by Nicholl, Charles
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- Fine
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- 1st American Edition
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
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New York: William Morrow, 1995. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Orig. green paper boards. xii, 398 pp. Dust jacket sunned to spine, sticker ghost to front, else fine. Item Price
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Archibald the Arctic
by Fleming, Archibald Lang
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1956
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- Soft cover
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New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, 1956. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter black paper, blue paper boards. Top edge purple. Map endpapers. x, 399 pp. [16] pp. B&W photos preceding title. Slight bowing to boards. Foxing to head of spine and boards. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket is sunned… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
by Synge. M.B. [Margaret Bertha]
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SGD 250.50
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Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. N.d., [1850]. Bound by Birdsall in half contemporary goatskin, brown cloth boards, gilt triple filet, gilt back, raised bands. xxvii, 554 pp., [13] colour plates, [16] B&W plates, numerous B&W illustrations in text. Some minor rubbing to edges and cracking to joints, else fine. A short… Read more about this item Item Price
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More Great True Adventures
by Thomas, Lowell and Lowell Thomas, Jr. (selected by)
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1963
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- Hardcover
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New York: Hawthorn Books, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full red cloth. 381 pp. Rubbing to extremities, slight tilting to spine. Pencil scuff to tail edge. Dust jacket is price clipped, rubbed to extremities, lightly soiled to rear. Twenty-one of the world's most exciting adventures - from the Norman invasion of England to the space… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Romance of Exploration and Emergency First-Aid from Stanley to Byrd: Chicago Century of Progress Exhibition 1934
by Burroughs Wellcome & Co
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- 1st Edition
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- 1934
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New York: Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full maroon cloth, unlettered spine, gilt title and unicorn device to front board. Silver embossed endpapers. T.E.G. 160 pp. Copious illustrations in text. Slight sunning to spine and offset panel to rear board, rubbing to front joint, light… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Dangerous Voyage of Captain Thomas James, In his Intended Discovery of a North West Passage into the South Sea, Wherein The Miseries indured, both Going, Wintering and Returning, and the Rarities observ'd Philosophical, Mathematical and Natural are related in this Journal of it, publish'd by the Special Command of King Charles I. To which is added A Map for Sailing in those Seas : Also divers Tables of the Author's of the Variation of the Compass, &c. With an Appendix concerning the Longitude, by Master Gellibrand, Astronomy Reader at Gresham College
by James, Thomas
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- 1973
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- Soft cover
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SGD 25.05
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Toronto: Coles Canadiana Collection, 1973. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Facsimile of the second edition, revised and corrected. Originally published 1740. Soft cover. 142 pp. Rubbing to extremities, sunning to spine, damp staining to tail edge. Bookplate to inside front cover. Item Price
SGD 25.05
Confronting Columbus: An Anthology
by Yewell, John, Chris Dodge, Jan DeSirey (editors)
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- 1992
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Whitby, Ontario, CAN
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SGD 30.06
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Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. green cloth. xiv, 217 pp. Fine. Item Price
SGD 30.06
Off the Beaten Track: Women Adventurers and Mountaineers in Western Canada
by Smith, Cyndi
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- 1st Edition
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- 1989
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- Soft cover
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Whitby, Ontario, CAN
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SGD 25.05
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Canmore, AB: Coyote Books, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. B&W maps inside covers. 290 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine. Off the Beaten Track is the story of fourteen women explorers, writers, artists, mountaineers, and trail guides who were active during the period between the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Second… Read more about this item Item Price
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